That would be the Rat look then - popular among VW's - you should see one of my vans

Vw van hey, i know this is a volvo forum but i do love my dubs aswell, you should see the state of my brothers van thats a long way beyond rat most would just say tat!

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

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I know this is on my brother's (huskyracer) to do list


Well he was planning to go along, but late on the saturday evening his car developed a bad exhaust blow ...

ali wrote:

The Mighty Boosh!

one of the best shows ever! also enjoyed the fast show back in the day

Do they do a RWYB?

They did last year but it was a touch on the expensive side at £15 for 3 runs

tuning stock carb = higly problematic.
Only if done wrong which I will admit did and still does happen allot, the 5 boys used to always get the carb done to a spec not set up on the actual car, this caused allot of problems as they were very rarely right. Over the last 2 years though there have ...

200bhp is all very well, but it's far easier to get that kind of power out of a 1.7 400 series turbo or 2.0 or 2.3 Volvo turbo engine
Yes very true but lil mike wants to use a 5 turbo lump and i want to see it done, everything else has been done as far as i can see and although Frits is doing this ...

I know this is on my brother's (huskyracer) to do list

The BB tuning fuel injection kit is expensive at £2937 whilst it is nice its not worth that money IMO, 99% of the bad reputation the gt turbos have is born out of bad tuning, a properly set up 5 is almost bullet proof, one of my mates was pushing over 200bhp with his and it was perfectly reliable ...

I'm glad Iains car is made up of random bits, I was going down that route, I thought they were all expensive off the shelf as opposed to off the scrappy parts!
Success! This is mainly what I was trying to clear up, most of the parts he used were cheap or free he was lucky with some items though ...

The paddle clutch is not as bad as he feared but it is still not very nice in traffic, the main problem with a paddle clutch is they tend to be engaged or disengaged with nothing in the middle making pulling away smoothly a bit of a challenge.

I think Husky also used the sump and engine mounts from a B172K engine
he sure did also obtained it very cheaply i believe he got them off a guy on e-bay, he bought a 5 speed box off the guy for £5 and when we went to collect it he also bought a pretty much a complete b172k engine, all the mounts ...

I also ment to say that the engine that is in my brothers car used to be in a 440 that I owned which made 157bhp that car was standard bar a £30 airfilter and a £7 bleed valve, we upped the boost to the cut off in the ecu and them backed it off a tad,m think it was running 10 psi would have to check ...

welcome to claymore810 and andyb to the forum

Thank you very much, not sure how welcome i will be when you see that i drive this
In my defence i also drive this when my brother lets me.

Ali no need to aploagies you have said nice things about the car on driftworks. :) also i think the way I wrote my post was poor as everything I wanted to say popped into my head in one big rush which my poor, slow typing could't keep up with meaning half never got typed before escaping my head ...

Hello volvo 300 fans, i am the brother of huskyracer and all though i don't own a 300 i doo have a big soft spot for them and enjoy steeling his keys when ever i get the chance, He got me to keep an eye on the 300 world for him as he is stupidly busy at the moment.
Any way to the point
(lets not ...